function getOrthodoxEaster($date)
{
/*
Takes any Gregorian date and returns the Gregorian
date of Orthodox Easter for that year.
*/
$year = date("Y", $date);
$r1 = $year % 19;
$r2 = $year % 4;
$r3 = $year % 7;
$ra = 19 * $r1 + 16;
$r4 = $ra % 30;
$rb = 2 * $r2 + 4 * $r3 + 6 * $r4;
$r5 = $rb % 7;
$rc = $r4 + $r5;
//Orthodox Easter for this year will fall $rc days after April 3
return strtotime("3 April $year + $rc days");
}
?>
Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: That everyone might have food. (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that everyone, from large producers to small consumers, be committed to avoid wasting food, and to ensure that everyone has access to quality food."
Last Quarter
3 Sunday
white
Fifth Sunday of Easter
Mass of the day, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I - V.
Yr A
[52] Acts 6:1-7; Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19; 1 Pet 2:4-9; John 14:1-12.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. James, apostle and patron of the diocese (cf. Acts 1:13-14a) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
35th anniversary of the death of F. Francis Überman (94) d. 1991 at Stara Wieś, Poland.
Anniversary:
2nd anniversary of the death of P. Henry Tafadzwa Masakare (SAP) (41) d. 2024 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
40th birthday of F. Arnold MURWIRA (born this day in 1986).
Birthday:
52nd birthday of P. Elias Bboloka Bubala NCHIMUNYA (born this day in 1974).
Birthday:
34th birthday of S. Innocent G. KALULU (born this day in 1992).
Jubilee:
Emerald Jubilee of P. Fidelis MUKONORI who celebrates 55 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1560
The first band of Jesuit missionaries head to Angola.
1606
The martyrdom of Henry Garnet, SJ, who was falsely charged with complicity in the Gunpowder Plot. At St. Paul's Churchyard, London.
1611
At Nanking, the opening of the first church, a Jesuit one, in that city. 1764. The last of the French Canadian Jesuit martyrs, Fr. Simon Gounon, drowns taking communion to the sick.
1900
Hugo Rahner, S.J. is born.
1945
Innsbruck is taken over by the American troops. Theology at the Canisianum resumes a few months later.
1978
The death of Leo C. Brown, labor arbitrator who from 1942 to his death served as mediator for hundreds of worker-management disputes.
1987
Rupert Mayer, S.J. is beatified in Munich. Apostle of Munich.
1994
Vincent Potter dies. Philosopher, professor at Fordham, expert on C.S. Peirce.